Topic summary
Muskelunge
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Muskellunge.
Etymology
The name "muskellunge" originates from the Ojibwe word maashkinoozhe, meaning "ugly pike". The Algonquin word maskinunga is borrowed into the Canadian French words masquinongé or maskinongé. In English, before settling on the common name "muskellunge", there were at least 94 common names applied to this species, including but not limited to: muskelunge, muscallonge, muskallonge, milliganong, maskinonge, maskalonge, mascalonge, maskalung, muskinunge and masquenongez.